Definition of "unbolt" []

• To release the bolts of (a door, for example); unlock. (verb-transitive)

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• "Most importantly, we need to "unbolt" them from their desk prison cells and focus their culture, literature and language learning not on a text book, but ourselves and our personal experiences."
• "If the owners move, they can unbolt it and take it with them."
• "Although police won't say how long the 48-year-old man was incapacitated, rescue crews had to unbolt the seat from the toilet, and take him to the hospital with it still attached, Lt. Matthew Donnelly, a spokesman for the Elkton, Md., tells the newspaper."